IndexRank – A New SEO Metric of Indexing Rate

How do you measure the success of your content strategy? How do you compare your website’s growth with your competitors?

Enter, IndexRank. IndexRank is a new metric to summarize the indexing rate of your site. If you constantly add content to your site, big or small, your IndexRank will be higher. If you only periodically add content to your site, your IndexRank will be lower. The metric is based on an algorithm that makes use of time specific indexing data from Google to indicate (on a 0-10 scale) the indexing rate of a website. Hat tip to Aaron Wall for a great post about the value of this data.

Below is a snapshot of the IndexRank of several sites. Read on for an analysis of each site, and why their IndexRank is where it is.

How to Use IndexRank

One of the best uses of IndexRank is to compare yourself with other sites, like your competitors. First, visit the Check Your IndexRank page and enter your domain name in the first text box. Then find a few competitors and enter their domain names in adjacent text boxes. (To find a quick list of competitors, search with your top keywords and select the top few domains that rank well.) The IndexRank of all of the domains will give you an idea for how your website is positioned with your competitors in terms of content growth. Remember, IndexRank must be acted upon to be useful, don’t just stare at it, improve it with action.

How Can I Improve My IndexRank?

If you find yourself lacking in IndexRank, the best place to start is by creating content. Start a blog and motivate yourself to write every day. Write articles, news, tutorials, or informational pages and post them on your site. Pay for content to be written for your site on a consistent basis (2-3 articles a week is a great place to start).

[...] Michael Jensen has come up with an alternative to PageRank. His IndexRank looks at how much content is being indexed from your site and assigns a rank. It’s a neat way to gauge the momentum of your–or any–web site. [...]

[...] Page Rank Sucks, Check Out IndexRank. The good people at SoloSEO.com announced a new tool for reporting back the rate at which the web pages of a particular domain are indexed by Google. Said tool is called, “IndexRank“. There’s plenty of explanation here but basically the usefulness of the tool is centered around the idea that content is king and the ongoing creation of content is of key importance when marketing web sites via search engines. It uses the site operator plus a date range. [...]

If only google results made sense. I have a site that has been live for two months. It has 2630 pages indexed in google, according to the index tool, no pages have been indexed in the last year, and yet in the all time section it has 2630 pages indexed. Now, when where these indexed according to google?

I think the concept is sound, it tends to rely on google data unfortunately.

I fail to see the use of IndexRank. It’s nothing more than an attempt to measure how frequently Google revisits a site, and has absolutely no bearing on the ranking or perceived quality. What difference does it make if Googlebot loads my server once a day rather than 5 times a day?

@firstfox, can you check the 2 week, month, 3/6 month queries manually to make sure those are accurate? We have found a few domains that report 0 when they are actually not manually (still trying to debug).

@Farhad, IndexRank isn’t everything, but it certainly has value in terms of content strategy. We all know we should constantly increase the content of our site, and this gives you an easy way to compare your site with your competitors.

As much as that may be an ego boost for myself there is no way that can been perceived as a valid statistic. We get a fraction of the traffic than the other sites and, we generate less content, less PR, and probably less links!

I think its a good idea but either the data collected is unreliable or the formula to work out the IndexRank is faulty.

[...] IndexRank: Measure The Indexing Rate Of Your Site By Patrick Schaber Michael Jenson over at SoloSEO introduced a new index ranking tool his company has developed called IndexRank that allows you to measure the rate at which your site is indexed. On a scale of 0-10 you’re given an indication of how often Google (or any search engine for that matter) is coming to index your site. [...]

[...] Page Rank Sucks, Check Out IndexRank. The good people at SoloSEO.com announced a new tool for reporting back the rate at which the web pages of a particular domain are indexed by Google. Said tool is called, “IndexRank“. There’s plenty of explanation here but basically the usefulness of the tool is centered around the idea that content is king and the ongoing creation of content is of key importance when marketing web sites via search engines. It uses the site operator plus a date range. [...]

[...] Page Rank Sucks, Check Out IndexRank. The good people at SoloSEO.com announced a new tool for reporting back the rate at which the web pages of a particular domain are indexed by Google. Said tool is called, “IndexRank“. There’s plenty of explanation here but basically the usefulness of the tool is centered around the idea that content is king and the ongoing creation of content is of key importance when marketing web sites via search engines. It uses the site operator plus a date range. [...]

There’s plenty of explanation here but basically the usefulness of the tool is centered around the idea that content is king and the ongoing creation of content is of key importance when marketing web sites via search engines. It uses the site operator plus a date range